That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for December 11, 2019

Young Harpo Marx and his first girlfriend.

“Okay kids, I know you have no idea how to play those instruments but at least look like you’re having fun.”

Fiddle-dee-dee, Angelo, stop harping on that!

If he’d settled for a lute, she could have afforded a proper cello.

Carnegie Hall was two blocks down and around the corner, but as long as Priscilla was more interested in the couple in the third story window and kept holding her bow like a monkey wrench, it might as well have been a thousand miles away.

“Black Sabbath? Never heard of them.”

Who needs talent when you have pluck?

He would have gotten there sooner if he had carried his harp instead.

“Humping his harp?” Lol

Why the astonished look? Someone in the crowd just yelled out “Free Bird”!

The Salvation Army Bell Ringers before the rise of boom boxes.

“Um, I thought you picked up the collection plate at the last corner”

Violin? Nah, this is a piccolo cello.

Classical street urchins

Before the guitar caught on, buskers tried a variety of different instruments as accompaniment

The music school that Karen and Jim attended was pretty hard core: every evening they had to go out to the street and play for their supper.

“Baby needs a new pair of shoes!”

Sonny and Cher – the very, very early years.

The sonata for viol and harp/ was writ in the key of C-sharp/ Rachmaninoff wrote it/ these kids must promote it/ but critics are certain to carp !

“After all the money I spent on your music lessons, the least you ungrateful little wretches can do is to show a little appreciation!”

BROTHER: Ha! Four strings are for girls. SISTER: Well, you’re clearly overcompensating for some short coming. BROTHER Huh? I don’t get it.

Violinists never fret. Harpists have a lot of pluck.

Even in this day and age, there are children in Austria being forced into musical lessons.

Please give to The Austrian Children’s Fund and together, we can bring an end to this tragedy.

The twins were actually identical. But more people threw coins into the hat when Ellen dressed at ‘Eliot’.

The Two Musicians: 

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/detail.php?ID=24615 

has info, or links that point to more info, about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting, including a description.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/brown_john_george.html 

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=533 

http://www.artnet.com/artists/john-george-brown/ 

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/32252308/john-george-brown 

https://chrysler.emuseum.com/objects/15524/pull-for-the-shore 

https://books.google.com/books?id=sPGdBxzaWj0C&pg=PA346#v=onepage&q&f=false 

http://www.all-art.org/DICTIONARY_of_Art/b/Brown_John1.htm 

https://books.google.com/books?id=js1ZCAAAQBAJ&pg=PT2#v=onepage&q&f=false 

http://www.avictorian.com/Brown_John_George.html 

http://hoocher.com/John_George_Brown/John_George_Brown.htm 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist, perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 6 works by him have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2019/12/04?comments=visible 

has the prior (my comment there included the same artist info URLs).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2347 (December 10, 2019) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Ed’s harp-shaped lapel pin was a bit ostentatious.

pre Walkman, kids perform for food.